Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Total Fertility Rate, Friedrich Engels, Nuclear Family

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Michael Haight

Document Summary

A researcher wants to measure the socioeconomic status of students in canadian law schools. She wants to connect socioeconomic status to academic standing in the class. She thinks that the less privileged students will probably perform more poorly than their classmates. To conduct her study, she collects evidence from all students in third year corporate law classes that require high academic standing to enroll. She measures their standing in the course at the end of the term then compares that to their parents socioeconomic status. Concern expressed by some about decline of nuclear family: cohabiting man & woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship & have at least one child. Traditional nuclear family: family in which the wife works without pay in home, while the husband works outside the home for money (making him the primary provider) Slow rise in divorce rate: number of divorces that occur in a year for every 1000 people in population.